Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-03
HE COWBOY PREACHER.
bepsis OF enc ntere sting Sermons
Delivered by Him ia the Baptist
CnuTch Yesterday.
on whnt Charge We VIII be Trisd Upon
the Great Judgment Dsy-Ehc Sub
jzct Wei HANDLED.


st Baptist church, corner Of Tenth
TarocknoItor streets, yesterday
srning to listen to 6 discourse by Mr..
5. Wesley, known TO lame SIS the COW
evangelist. sir, Wesley had never
in Fort Worth before in ten years,
en he passed through = the way of his
csti0n So cOwpuncher. TIE gentle
= was converted, he says, only two
IS ago ct one Of NJ or PENIS Tcvivals
kP6lest.ne, sud has since 0een preach
= The nCsDei II different parts OF the
fapntrv NORM aad south, always attract
= immense audiences. Mr. Wesley is
sli.ht build. He is rather an
kgni8csnt figure in the pulpit, but his
BE- is not at all Ike his physical struc-
10 He has 6 clear expression and car
8 his voice in its fexions to the highest
"a lowest pitch. His words rull melli-
ouslv and he never lacks for express
bns Tor his ideas. He speaks with fGirly
Id ENGLISH and does not make use OF
w0ov CollOquialisms exceDtiasomuchG s
HGceDt sl2ngy snd even vulgar express
bns thrown in IS spice may be cousiG-
+ Ri such, He tells good story in an
a maud easy way and often brings smiles
II the faces of his listeners.
81 THE SERMON.
s#The pIascher announced as his text
'Ysy XVI: II or is the blood th6t m8keth
:oEonement Tor the soul" Before enter
|far on the disc purse, he said:
"A suppose before enteying upon mp
tdeme il would be Vel to say few
:sNbrds by way Of Introduction, but since
ID not come here TO Introduce or
re present self these words will be few.
III an IN evangelist connected with the
Kp.ist church, wss requested 10 come
here and preach to-day by some OF the
brethren of the State Baptist convention
no. IN session St d 2ilss, Texas. l will
aG dress YOU again tonight, then Will re-
Era to Dallas w ere l VIII begin = series
of sermons to continue some twenty days.
No liz q division of labor, agd as lis
Mniug is said TO be harder work than
Preaching, I'll give you the hardest JOB.
Nov my theme is:''the blood"
3 This text, standing out as it does in
Bold relief, should be sufficient to cut
down all pride, oil seIf-conceit, together
Win sill selfsulti cheney OF poor, fallen,
sei-exalting man. | is the tlood-not
POUR keeping the law; the blOOd-nOt
YOUR good works; the blood-1ot your
Religion; the blood-not your morality,
not your baptism, not yGur church or any
other human effort whateV-r, out "the
Blood that maketh Sd at0Eement for the
Sou" Men OF the present day preach
everything and anything but the blood.
The blood, though SO eIninantly set forth
throughout the word Of God, IS greatly
Neglected by the people Of Coo, and
ku. little 0welt upou by the
'ninister5 Of the present day
Has il lost is power TO make 81
etonement for the soul since the text was
penued? Is It possible thai it no longer
Hclenseth Us from all stn?' No, thank
60 it has the same power to-day it had
iages and ages ago. Then waY do men
won't call them ministers, preach long
sermons about the church, Wrangle con-
Ierning blptism, write volumes OF
communiou and say nothing about the
blood? Like q scarlet line the blood run:
Through the entire inspired volume Of
God. Beginning ST Genesis we trace i
fhrongl the tive books Of Moses, then tht
Psalms through the prophesies into The
NeW Testimeut and lis still "the BLOOD
that meketh an atonement for she soul.
NYe ind the fist shedding of blood va
None by the Lord God himself in tn
8laYing OF animals. "Unto Adam alst
nnd 10 his wife did the Lord God max,
coats of skins and clothe them" Gene
isis, 3:2l.
Here we Ind a hesu.iful type whicl
Ii ads its antjtype in Christ. Adam trieC
sto cover mis- worthlessnesS and Rskedaes
SHoy the tig leaves They were not suni
scient. SO God clothed them (after Bi!l
sing animals thereby shedding blood witt
zsOm ethiug durable. 50 with the naturd
Imam. He tries 10 Clothe himself witt
fhis own righteousness, morality.or char
sltable deeds, bat they are not sufficient
#Tney must be clothed upon with th
{robe of righteousness prepared by Got
himself after the shedding Of III
BLOOD of His own San upon Calvary, II,
robe Of the righteousness Of Christ, /
fGenesis / % we see the difference il gift
nor offerings What WAS the differenC
shere between the two men, Cain and Abe
RGod had respect TO Abeps Offering bu
sdid not recognize Gains. Why was this
8They were both sinners. They were bot
Striving TO gain Gods favor, apparently
kWhy did God accept one and not both
4Si nply because zone had blood aud tn
Aotner 10 blood. Ia Hebrews 9:22 Vi
8written, "without shedding of blood is Il
4remission." Atel found an innocent sui
stitute and offered it, while Cain brougt
Il the works OF his own hands and trie
10 be saved by works. Abel
lsmb pointed to 1.-THE Lamb OF G.
that taketh away the sin of the world.
The theme of the gospel is substitution
We t1d striking picture Of substitute
in Exodus 1913: "And every tlrstliEg
an ass thou shalt redeem with 8 lam
and if thou wilt not redeem 1t, then the
1 Shalt break its neck; and all the fl
born Of man among lhy children Shd
4 thou redeem" Here was beast SIS 500
as it wGs born, It was sentenced 70 di
Nothing c8n save it but substitution
Some might ssy 90 baptize the sss-ar
1 let me say right here, brethren, there 8
lots of baptized asses all over this cou
t-y-or educate or refine or develop
mind and il will need no substitute
But this would not do; you mig
undergo all of these THU
and still it would be under senter
Of death, sd u2less i was redeemed
& neck had 70 be broken. In the ne
clause OF this verse we tiud man placed
the same catalogue. He is under ST
terce of de.th until he is redeemS
Now Christ, or the Lamb Of God, IS o
i rsdeemer, and unless We ind s subs
tute in hin we must die 81 eternal des1
EVENING SERMON.
In the evening" the crowd that came
besr tba calehrsted evangelist WAS